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We tried to push the tempo a little bit more. T.J. did a great job pushing the ball up the court and I just tried to get open. It's big when someone else steps up (instead of Michael Redd).

We tried to push the tempo a little bit more in the third and T.J. did a great job pushing the ball up the court. I knew if I could get open with his penetration, (Portland) would collapse and he would kick out to me. Then it's just up to me to hit the shots and that's what I did.

They had a lot of speed, and they ran the ball well, ... They ran the ball mostly to the outside. That'll be our challenge, to stop their outside running.

At halftime we stressed ball control and getting physical.

We wanted to deny their passes to the interior. I thought we did a good job of denying them the ball inside and dropping back and helping each other on defense.

That was typical Pistons' basketball. We got what we wanted and tightened up on our defense, started taking some things away from them and the ball started going in. We just sort of willed our way.

WHY COULDN'T McCOVEY HAVE HIT THE BALL JUST THREE FEET HIGHER?

When you have to take the ball out, you can't run. This last couple of weeks our defense hasn't been the same. When you have to take that ball out, you can't get transition baskets.

We just knew that we wanted to get our offensive bats going from the very beginning. I think I wanted it a lot, too, because this is region play and we haven't beaten Spanish Fork in high school ball since I was a freshman. I just wanted it really bad.